Where are the college men?

Where are the college men? Female high-school students are more likely to aspire to a college degree, enroll and graduate than their male classmates. That’s true on leafy liberal arts campuses — and even more true at community colleges, which provide affordable job training.

Men are “conspicuously absent” on the campus of Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, writes Hanna Rosin in The End of Men: And the Rise of Women. Although the college president tries to “recruit more boys,” 70 percent of MCC students are female. Many are single mothers.

The other issue is that males (in general) graduate at least 2 years behind in math skills, and 1 to 1.5 years behind in reading and writing skills, compared to females.

Many students graduate without the required knowledge or skills to succeed in college…Look at who gets disciplined more (in general it’s males), who is cutting class more often (males)…the typical school doesn’t work well for today’s males, and in general, the myth of the War Against Girls over the last 20 years is a sham, since females have been kicking the collective rear ends of males in academics in public school and college for at least a solid decade or so.

Some welfare situations require attendance at some kind of school a condition for receipt of bennies. If we find this is the case at a school–whether for single mothers or simply people without money needing assistance–the figures could be skewed without some great cultural explanation necessary.